With only two days to go before Christmas, a credible, yet wholly disheartening rumor has begun to swirl around the blogosphere that suggests the holiday may be canceled—if the United States Congress doesn’t act quickly.

Thanks to the economic downturn, Santa Claus can’t afford to pay his high-priced, unionized elves and fly his environment-fr...

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Washington announced this Sunday that they will be injected $20B more into Citibank, a bank who has already recieved $25B from the $700B bailout package passed weeks ago. This comes in the wake of a heated exchange between the big three automakers and Congress, who refuses to give them $25B to avoid bankruptcy unless they come up with a good pla...

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This is THE END.  The auto industry is dead.  Or just about. 

It's amazing the stories you hear about car manufacturers from where I sit, in an educated mid-Michigan community that is perfectly suited to retrain autoworkers into just about anything technical that is not auto-related.

Governor Granholm was interviewed by the national media al...

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So congress just voted to give Wall Street $700 billion dollars so they don’t nosedive our economy to the point where we all become slaves to the Chinese. But I can’t help but think, wouldn’t that money be better spent on other stuff? Here’s what I’d do with it.

1. The Ultimate Frat House

Tear down a shithole frat and replace it with the act...

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This was published in 2002, but doesn't it seem awfully appropriate today?